2. What are Carla and her siblings sent to do?
(a) Get shots.
(b) Change their clothes.
(c) Get their paperwork.
(d) Have a medical exam.

3. Where is Anita when some black Volkswagons appear?
(a) On her way to the neighbor's house.
(b) In her room dressing for the party.
(c) At the neighbor's house.
(d) Cooking something for the party.

4. What happens when word is taken to Tony's house that Mr. Smith's friends are there?
(a) Tony runs and hides in the Americans' home.
(b) Nothing because Tony has already been smuggled into the United States.
(c) Tony goes down a trap door in the cellar.
(d) Everyone disperses.

5. Who have gathered at Tio Tony's house on the night of the party?
(a) Some of the party guests.
(b) Just two of Tony's closests friends.
(c) A group of men.
(d) Most of Anita's relatives.

6. Why do the teacher and the two visitors step into the hallway?
(a) The classroom is very noisy.
(b) So the teacher can show the new boy his correct classroom.
(c) To talk in privacy.
(d) So the students can go on with their classwork.

7. What does Lucinda tell Susie about her upcoming birthday?
(a) It is an important one in the Dominican Republic.
(b) They won't be able to celebrate it this year.
(c) They always skip celebrating that year's birthday because of superstition.
(d) It is the same day as Lucinda's birthday.

8. Why does Anita's mother say she and Anita's father are staying in the Dominican Republic?
(a) For Anita's father to run for public office.
(b) To wait for Anita's mother to give birth.
(c) To fight against the things that are wrong.
(d) To try to sell the business.

9. What do Carla and Anita find difficult?
(a) To attend different schools.
(b) To leave each other.
(c) To travel so far by train.
(d) To choose items for the valise.

10. What is Anita's response to the answer Chucha gives her about her cousins?
(a) Anita thinks the Chucha is being melodramatic.
(b) Anita thinks Chucha is teasing.
(c) Anita thinks Chucha is getting senile.
(d) Anita does not understand the answer.

11. Who is the other person who comes into the classroom?
(a) Anita's mother.
(b) The new boy's mother.
(c) Carla's mother.
(d) The new boy's father.

12. Where is the setting of the school?
(a) Bermuda
(b) Cuba.
(c) Dominican Republic.
(d) Haiti.

13. Why does Anita spend more time in the bathroom these days?
(a) To write private letters to Carla.
(b) To hide her crying.
(c) To make herself attractive.
(d) To have a private place to write in her journal.

14. What is one topic Anita and her mother discuss?
(a) Anita going to live with her cousin's family.
(b) What is happening with the family.
(c) Anita going to live with her grandparents.
(d) Anita's mother's pregnancy and her upcoming new sibling.

15. Where does Chucha sleep?
(a) Wherever there is space.
(b) In her coffin.
(c) On a pallet on the floor.
(d) On a narrow cot.